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IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals

Summary: Learn how easy it is to get trained and certified for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Expand your skills portfolio, or extend your DBMS vendor support to include DB2.

Date: 11 Jan 2013 (Published 03 Jun 2010)

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Learn how easy it is to get trained and certified for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Expand your skills portfolio, or extend your DBMS vendor support to include DB2.

About this kit

If you're a DBA or database developer currently working with Oracle or another relational database management system, learn how easy it is to get trained and certified for IBM® DB2® for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®. Features introduced in DB2 9.7 make it very easy to reuse your PL/SQL knowledge since DB2 has out-of-the-box support for Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL dialects. DB2 9.7 makes it easy to move applications, reduces enablement costs, and brings a radically lower total cost of ownership.

Expand your skills portfolio, or extend your DBMS vendor support to include DB2. You'll find that you're already almost there.

In this kit

Articles

DB2 10: Run Oracle applications on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
What's new in DB2 10 for LUW
Optimize storage with deep compression in DB2 10
Managing time in DB2 with temporal consistency
IBM Data Movement Tool
Created global temporary tables
Using PL/SQL anonymous blocks in DB2 9.7
Autonomous transactions
Online schema change
Best practices for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Distributed DBA: Creating and using partitioned tables (IBM Data Management Magazine)
CLPPLUS: IBM DB2's new command line processor (Database Journal)
Generate formatted reports for IBM data servers using CLPPlus
What is DB2 pureScale? (IBM Data Management Magazine)

Video

IBM DB2 Customer Video: DB2 is Easy to Learn

Demos

Native PL/SQL Support
CLP Plus
DB2 pureScale: Scalability

Knowledge path

IBM DB2 Fundamentals for Oracle Professionals Knowledge Path

Redbooks and publications

Oracle to DB2 conversion guide: Compatibility made easy
MySQL to DB2 conversion guide
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for DB2 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows
IBM Data Management Magazine
Getting Started with DB2 Application Development

Certification roadmaps

DB2 10.1 Fundamentals certification (exam 610) prep
DB2 for z/OS certification

Workshops and webcasts

Free IBM DB2 Workshop for Oracle Professionals (in-person and self-paced versions)
Oracle and DB2 - An Architectural Comparison (MyMeetings conferencing)
Enabling applications from Oracle to DB2 the easy way (channelDB2)

Advanced DB2 topics